#impersonation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #impersonation, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/687017/ Michigan senior cashed out $270,000 in pensions after fake FTC agent threatened her with arrest over bogus charges #BogusCharges #Business #CBSDetroit #DaveRamsey #Éire #FederalTradeCommission #HazelParkPoliceDepartment #IE #impersonation #Ireland #Michigan #PensionAccounts #PersonalFinance #PersonalInformation #PersonalFinance
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Michigan senior cashed out $270,000 in pensions after fake FTC agent threatened her with arrest over bogus charges
shutterstock.com / Focused Adventures A Michigan senior recently cashed out pensions belo…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #boguscharges #Business #CBSDetroit #DaveRamsey #FederalTradeCommission #HazelParkPoliceDepartment #impersonation #Michigan #pensionaccounts #personalinformation #PersonalFinance
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Michigan senior cashed out $270,000 in pensions after fake FTC agent threatened her with arrest over bogus charges
shutterstock.com / Focused Adventures A Michigan senior recently cashed out pensions belo…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #boguscharges #Business #CBSDetroit #DaveRamsey #FederalTradeCommission #HazelParkPoliceDepartment #impersonation #Michigan #pensionaccounts #personalinformation #PersonalFinance
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Man Poses as NSA Hacker, Supreme Court Justice, Faces Charges
Meet Joshua Culver, aka "Maverick Young", a man who allegedly impersonated an NSA hacker and Supreme Court Justice, landing him in hot water with the law. He's now facing charges for falsely impersonating an officer and using a forged judge's signature.
#Impersonation #LawEnforcement #FalsifiedDocuments #IdentityFraud #EmergingThreats
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More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.
Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200
Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:
“an AI learning to live”
The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.
Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.
The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.
When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.
Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident
It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.
*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #chat #IRC #Etherpad #Zoom #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
← https://tantek.com/2026/220/t3/24th-blogiversary
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Dead Ringers on BBC R4 is often hit and miss, but this weeks was very good imo. From Football to nailing Kussenberg, Gove and much else. Not subtle but fun. Two links, one to the original recording and one for people who might have problems accessing it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002yw8p
https://soundcloud.com/user-539616623/dead-ringers
#DeadRingers #BBC #R4 #Radio #Satire #Impersonation #Comedy #News
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Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008
US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.
Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.
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Engadget: AI Researchers Secretly Experimented on Reddit Users
404 Media: Reddit Threatens Legal Action Over AI Experiments
#adapters #affiliateLinks #AI #AIExperiment #AIFirst #Amazon #Android #automotiveTrends #bipartisan #BodieGrimm #broadband #carPrices #chargeOnlyCable #ChatGPT #consumerElectronics #contractors #dataEthics #deepfakes #DenmarkStudy #Duolingo #eCommerce #economicImpact #economists #electricVehicles #endOfService #ethics #Europe #EVs #generativeAI #GoogleCompetitor #impersonation #internetAccess #jobAutomation #JuiceJacking #KilowattPodcast #Kuiper #legalAction #legislation #LG #LGBridge #lowEarthOrbit #nonconsensualContent #NorthAmerica #OnePlus #onlineSafety #OpenAI #OTAUpdates #phoneSupport #priceDrop #privacy #productRecommendations #productivity #rChangemyview #Reddit #refunds #revengePorn #ruralAreas #satelliteInternet #security #shopping #smartphones #smartwatch #softwareUpdates #Starlink #TakeItDownAct #tariffs #travelSafety #UniversityOfZurich #USCongress #USPricing #USBCondom #USBC #Watch3 #workplaceAutomation
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Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008
US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.
Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.
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A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible.
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Show Notes
Engadget: AI Researchers Secretly Experimented on Reddit Users
404 Media: Reddit Threatens Legal Action Over AI Experiments
#adapters #affiliateLinks #AI #AIExperiment #AIFirst #Amazon #Android #automotiveTrends #bipartisan #BodieGrimm #broadband #carPrices #chargeOnlyCable #ChatGPT #consumerElectronics #contractors #dataEthics #deepfakes #DenmarkStudy #Duolingo #eCommerce #economicImpact #economists #electricVehicles #endOfService #ethics #Europe #EVs #generativeAI #GoogleCompetitor #impersonation #internetAccess #jobAutomation #JuiceJacking #KilowattPodcast #Kuiper #legalAction #legislation #LG #LGBridge #lowEarthOrbit #nonconsensualContent #NorthAmerica #OnePlus #onlineSafety #OpenAI #OTAUpdates #phoneSupport #priceDrop #privacy #productRecommendations #productivity #rChangemyview #Reddit #refunds #revengePorn #ruralAreas #satelliteInternet #security #shopping #smartphones #smartwatch #softwareUpdates #Starlink #TakeItDownAct #tariffs #travelSafety #UniversityOfZurich #USCongress #USPricing #USBCondom #USBC #Watch3 #workplaceAutomation
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Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008
US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.
Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.
Follow us on Bluesky, Mastodon, X Instgram, Threads, YouTube and Twitch
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A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible.
If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon, Thank you!
Send to email to [email protected]
Show Notes
Engadget: AI Researchers Secretly Experimented on Reddit Users
404 Media: Reddit Threatens Legal Action Over AI Experiments
#adapters #affiliateLinks #AI #AIExperiment #AIFirst #Amazon #Android #automotiveTrends #bipartisan #BodieGrimm #broadband #carPrices #chargeOnlyCable #ChatGPT #consumerElectronics #contractors #dataEthics #deepfakes #DenmarkStudy #Duolingo #eCommerce #economicImpact #economists #electricVehicles #endOfService #ethics #Europe #EVs #generativeAI #GoogleCompetitor #impersonation #internetAccess #jobAutomation #JuiceJacking #KilowattPodcast #Kuiper #legalAction #legislation #LG #LGBridge #lowEarthOrbit #nonconsensualContent #NorthAmerica #OnePlus #onlineSafety #OpenAI #OTAUpdates #phoneSupport #priceDrop #privacy #productRecommendations #productivity #rChangemyview #Reddit #refunds #revengePorn #ruralAreas #satelliteInternet #security #shopping #smartphones #smartwatch #softwareUpdates #Starlink #TakeItDownAct #tariffs #travelSafety #UniversityOfZurich #USCongress #USPricing #USBCondom #USBC #Watch3 #workplaceAutomation
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Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008
US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.
Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.
Follow us on Bluesky, Mastodon, X Instgram, Threads, YouTube and Twitch
Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free.
A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible.
If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon, Thank you!
Send to email to [email protected]
Show Notes
Engadget: AI Researchers Secretly Experimented on Reddit Users
404 Media: Reddit Threatens Legal Action Over AI Experiments
#adapters #affiliateLinks #AI #AIExperiment #AIFirst #Amazon #Android #automotiveTrends #bipartisan #BodieGrimm #broadband #carPrices #chargeOnlyCable #ChatGPT #consumerElectronics #contractors #dataEthics #deepfakes #DenmarkStudy #Duolingo #eCommerce #economicImpact #economists #electricVehicles #endOfService #ethics #Europe #EVs #generativeAI #GoogleCompetitor #impersonation #internetAccess #jobAutomation #JuiceJacking #KilowattPodcast #Kuiper #legalAction #legislation #LG #LGBridge #lowEarthOrbit #nonconsensualContent #NorthAmerica #OnePlus #onlineSafety #OpenAI #OTAUpdates #phoneSupport #priceDrop #privacy #productRecommendations #productivity #rChangemyview #Reddit #refunds #revengePorn #ruralAreas #satelliteInternet #security #shopping #smartphones #smartwatch #softwareUpdates #Starlink #TakeItDownAct #tariffs #travelSafety #UniversityOfZurich #USCongress #USPricing #USBCondom #USBC #Watch3 #workplaceAutomation
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CISA Warns of Phone Scammers Impersonating Its Employees https://thecyberexpress.com/cisa-warns-of-phone-scammers-impersonating/ #CybersecurityandInfrastructureSecurityAgency #TheCyberExpressNews #ImpersonationScams #CybersecurityNews #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #cybersecurity #impersonation #Cyberattack #scams #CISA #FTC
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The final step of the #TwitterMigration is leaving the platform altogether.
How does one manage their #brand risk?
I have my #Twitter handle on slides, cards, and a host of other items that I've distributed during my academic career.
Once I leave Twitter (or get kicked out) and someone co-opts my username, how do I ensure that visitors know that the current owner of the username is no longer me? How does one manage #impersonation? Ideas?
